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Anastasiia Zymaroieva*1, Tetiana Fedoniuk2, Svitlana Matkovska3, Olena Andreieva4, Victor Pazych5
1Department of Forestry and Ecology, Polissia National University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Email: nastya.zymaroeva@gmail.com
2Department of Forestry and Ecology, Polissia National University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Email: tanyavasiluk2015@gmail.com
3Department of Forestry and Ecology, Polissia National University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Email: matkovcka@ukr.net
4Department of Forestry and Ecology, Polissia National University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Email: andreeva-lena15@ukr.net
5Department of Forestry and Ecology, Polissia National University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Email: forest.znau@ukr.net
*Corresponding author | ORCID: 0000-0001-9382-8269
Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 4(2): 34-47. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.040203
Received: 08 April 2021
Reviewed: 21 April 2021
Provisionally Accepted: 30 April 2021
Revised: 05 May 2021
Finally Accepted: 10 May 2021
Published: 05 June 2021
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Global food security largely depends on the crop yield increase, so the study of the yield-limiting factors of potato (the second bread) is a pressing issue today. This study determines the contribution of the agroecological factors, namely, bioclimatic variables, soil indicators, and factors of landscape diversity, to the variation in potato yields. Conducted in Polissya and Forest-steppe zones of Ukraine during 1991–2017, this study has not only addressed the relationship between ecological determinants and potato yields, but also considered crop yields as a dynamic system. The dynamics of potato yields from the mid-1990s to the present is described by a log-logistic model. There are statistically significant regression dependencies between potato yield parameters and agroecological factors. Potato yield is dependent on the diversity of landscape cover. The relationship between yield parameters and landscape-ecological diversity is non-linear, which determines the presence of optimal landscape structure for the highest potato yields. Among climatic factors, the continental climate is of the greatest importance for potato yield. The high sensitivity of potato yield parameters to soil indices was found, and mostly the soil texture components (silt content), which largely determines the potato yield spatial variation.
Yield; Ecological factors; Spatiotemporal variation; Potato
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Zymaroieva, Anastasiia, Fedoniuk, Tetiana, Matkovska, Svitlana, Andreieva, Olena, Pazych, Victor. 2021. “Agroecological Determinants of Potato Spatiotemporal Yield Variation at the Landscape Level in the Central and Northern Ukraine”. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 4 no. 2: 34-47. https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.040203
Zymaroieva A., Fedoniuk T., Matkovska S., Andreieva O., Pazych V. Agroecological Determinants of Potato Spatiotemporal Yield Variation at the Landscape Level in the Central and Northern Ukraine. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 2021, 4(2), 34-47. https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.040203
Zymaroieva, Anastasiia, Tetiana Fedoniuk, Svitlana Matkovska, Olena Andreieva and Victor Pazych. 2021. “Agroecological Determinants of Potato Spatiotemporal Yield Variation at the Landscape Level in the Central and Northern Ukraine”. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 4 (2): 34-47. https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.040203
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